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Published on 06/02/2026 – 16:07 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump has launched a new government website aimed at reducing prescription drug costs for Americans. The White House announced TrumpRx.gov on Thursday, featuring more than 40 medications from five pharmaceutical companies that reached pricing agreements with the administration: AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer. “You’re going to save a fortune,” Trump said. “This is also so good for overall healthcare.” How does it work? The site promises “the world’s lowest prices on prescription drugs” and showcases popular medications, including weight-loss treatments like Ozempic and Wegovy. Users can search…
Leaders from Eastern and Northern European states have confirmed their participation, as well as the European Commission. France has also been invited but has yet to confirm its attendance, added the official cited above, who like the diplomat was granted anonymity to discuss the plans. The move comes as like-minded countries join forces to try and impose their vision on the way the EU works. Just last week, finance ministers from the bloc’s largest economies — Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland — confirmed they were launching a new format known as the Big Six to push the…
France opened a consulate in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, on Friday, strengthening its diplomatic presence in the Arctic and keeping the promise made by President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to the island last June. In doing so, France becomes the first EU country to establish a consulate general in Greenland, ahead of its partners in the 27-member bloc. Brussels, however, is already represented on the island, following the opening of a European Commission bureau in 2024. Jean-Noël Poirier, the former French ambassador to Vietnam, took up his job upon arrival in Nuuk, where he will represent France in this semi-autonomous…
The coming storm The most immediate task is how to deal with the now-promised release of files relating to Mandelson’s appointment, a move for transparency that could prove damaging for Starmer and his top team as well as the former envoy. Managing this moment could put him on the front foot again, if handled with extreme caution and fortitude. One former aide who worked closely with Starmer, granted anonymity like others in this piece to speak candidly, said: “What is clear is the prime minister isn’t going to just give up. That’s not him. That’s not his nature… If he…
Published on 06/02/2026 – 14:57 GMT+1•Updated 15:27 Leaders of the socialist and liberal groups in the European Parliament raised concerns over the attendance of European Commission Vice-President Raffaele Fitto and Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius at a European People’s Party (EPP) political gathering in Slovenia on Thursday. Iratxe García Pérez and Valérie Hayer, the leaders of the S&D and Renew Europe groups, sent a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, claiming that the Commissioners may have breached the internal conduct rules by appearing at a political event just weeks ahead of Slovenia’s elections. The incident adds another point of…
The US Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, has taken the unprecedented decision to immediately sever diplomatic contacts with the Speaker of the Polish Sejm, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty**.** “As of today, we will no longer maintain contact or communicate with Marshal Czarzisty of the Sejm,” US Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose announced. Amb. Tom Rose did not specify what those alleged insults were, but Czarzasty had issued a public statement on Monday in which he said he would not support an initiative of his Israeli and American counterparts to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Czarzasty is one…
Stern, who died in 2020, was the director of the startup competition Pitch@Palace, which was owned by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, before shutting down in November 2025. ‘Anytime for you’ The files show that Epstein and Tang planned to call each other once in 2011 and meet on two separate occasions in 2011 and 2012. In June 2011 Epstein sent an email asking “donald , can we speak on the phone?” to which a redacted email address associated with the name Donald Tang responds “It’s late in NY. I am leaving for Shanghai in a few hours. What’s your number for me to call you?” In October 2011 Epstein received an email, also from a redacted address, signed by Donald Tang, asking him if he will be “in…
Published on 06/02/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1•Updated 17:34 Founded in 2017, Dessintey makes neuroscience-based motor rehabilitation platforms, among which its flagship devices based on mirror therapy. “We film the patient’s unimpaired limb and flip the image so the patient can see their paralysed limb move again”, explains Davy Luneau, co-founder and product expert. “This visual observation helps stimulate brain plasticity and motor recovery.” Whether it be stroke survivors, people with neurodegenerative diseases, paraplegics, tetraplegics, or amputees, the range of users is wide. “We initially tested the device for scientific purposes,” says Professor Pascal Giraux, head of adult rehabilitation at CHU Saint-Étienne…
By Silviu Jugaru Published on 06/02/2026 – 17:09 GMT+1•Updated 17:10 Dissatisfied with the government’s planned austerity measures in the education sector, thousands of Romanian teachers and education staff took to the streets this week in protest. The demonstration in Bucharest on Wednesday came after the coalition government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan approved two austerity packages to reduce the budget deficit as part of reforms. The new austerity measures specifically place a 10% cut on the salary fund of public institutions. Teachers in the eastern European nation of nearly 19 million have threatened to go on strike if the government…
“In fact, they [Russian units] have problems now. They are like blind kittens,” a Ukrainian General Staff commanders told POLITICO separately, also granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. On Friday, Russian military bloggers, who in the past have praised Musk for his anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, complained about the mass failure of terminals for the Starlink satellite service that began on the evening on Feb. 4 on the frontline in Ukraine. “The Russian Armed Forces used gray Starlinks to organize communications at the front. The danger is that it was an easy way compared to doing something new, pulling an ever-breaking optical…